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Ernst H. Gombrich
British art historian
Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889
Hippolyte Taine
French critic and historian
Linda Nochlin
American art historian
Henri Loyrette
French arts administrator and historian
Walpole, Horace
Horace Walpole
English author
Francesco Pasinetti
Italian filmmaker
Heinrich Wölfflin
Swiss historian
Anthony Blunt
British art historian and spy
Donald Kuspit
American art critic and historian
Ernst Kris
psychologist and art historian
Helen Gardner
American art historian and educator
Julius Meier-Graefe
art critic and historian
Philip Hendy
British art historian and curator
Erwin Panofsky
German-American art historian
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
British art historian
Michael Fried
American critic, art historian, and poet
Alice Van Vechten Brown
American educator